I recently got engaged and am SO excited!! It was the best proposal I could have ever imagined. However, I am trying to plan my wedding on a limited budget.. With this horrible economy right now, I am trying to save money any way I can. I want my wedding favors, decorations, invitations etc to look like I spent more money on them than I actually will. We will probably have close to 150 people attending (huge family) so any ideas on inexpensive, BUT cute favors etc would be greatly appreciated! I recently started searching and have found a few bridal websites that had some DIY favors (do it yourself 
that didn't seem like they would be that time consuming to put together, (always another plus!) I put a picture on here of one of the cute personalized favor boxes I found... I had read one of the posts from a few months ago, and found the website Gracious Bridal; they had some fabulous yet inexpensive favors, and favor packaging. Some of them, you can put together yourself, and others are already done for you! There prices were actually extremely reasonable, and they had a lot to choose from; even edible favors, which are always fun for the guests!
Gracious Bridal has Mini Hershey Bars that have personalized wrapping with the bride and grooms monogram on the packaging; so cute!!
I also found a site that had inexpensive wedding invitations, www.weddinginvitations.be , they also give you 25 free invites! Hopefully, this information helps other brides in my situation, but ANY other ideas or suggestions will be greatly appreciated!!!!!! I would like to save some extra money to put towards my honeymoon.....
When I was getting ready for my wedding I frequented a site called Offbeatbride.com.
It's directed at people that want somewhat non-traditional weddings, but you'll find that almost all of them are looking for cheap ways to do things at their wedding too. There are some really fantastic suggestions thrown up on the forum all the time.
One of the best tips I have: When trying to buy things, look for non-wedding versions (i.e., DON'T tell the baker you go to that the cake is for a wedding, and better yet try to get your cake from somewhere that generally doesn't do weddings). Give it a try, get creative, congratulations and good luck!